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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage
Date: 7 May 2003 15:55:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9c2sh$ojj$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b9bupr$jkm$2@tangens.hometree.net

Followup to:  <b9bupr$jkm$2@tangens.hometree.net>
By author:    "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> writes:
> 
> >I dunno what the purpose of that would be exactly, I guess to cater to
> >some hardware odditites?
> 
> Wild guess: You can use larger transfer sizes with the 48 bit
> interface, even when adressing the lower 28 bit space?
> 
> This might be a win for applications that stream large contigous
> blocks from/to a HD (Video, Audio...)
> 

Right, Jens basically does something like:

use_48_bits := (address+length > 2^28) || (length >= 2^16)

	-hpa
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-07 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-07  8:49 [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 16:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-07 16:46   ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 17:15     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-07 17:33       ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 17:42         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-07 17:50           ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 19:58             ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-07 20:19               ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08  7:56                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 11:01                   ` Alan Cox
2003-05-08 12:01                     ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-12 21:41                       ` Mike Fedyk
2003-05-13  6:44                         ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 11:34                   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-08 11:59                     ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 12:20                       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-08 12:26                         ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 12:36                         ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 13:16                           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-08 13:23                             ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 13:35                               ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-08 13:37                                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 14:47                                   ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 14:51                                     ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 14:46                                 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-08 15:49                                   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-08 16:16                                     ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 16:27                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-08 16:34                                         ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 16:59                                           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-09  7:40                                             ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 22:06                                           ` Alan Cox
2003-05-09  7:06                                             ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-09  8:28                                               ` [PATCH][RFC] Sanitize hwif/drive addressing (was Re: [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage) Jens Axboe
2003-05-09 11:07                                                 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-09 12:03                                                   ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 21:45     ` [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-05-07 22:03       ` Alan Cox
2003-05-07 22:55       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-05-07 18:29   ` Alan Cox
2003-05-07 19:30     ` Jens Axboe

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